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The Tasmanian yacht murder: a groundbreaking new appeal

23 March 2019

6:01 PM

23 March 2019

6:01 PM

In a historic decision to grant Sue Neill-Fraser leave to appeal against her 2010 murder conviction, Justice Brett of Tasmania’s Supreme Court has exercised for the first time the legislation that only Tasmanian and South Australian parliaments have passed: a further right to appeal for those convicted of serious crimes whose first appeals have failed.

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